So for all of you who wanted to get this album online, you can find it there. It might be a sweet last minute gift for your friends and family who are crow lovers, or just poetry lovers who prefer to listen to poetry.

The crows shift-shape and shape-shift through memory, and language and life. They are the ever present and changing tricksters. There is also lots of snow so perfect for this time of the year. Soressa‘s voice and soundscapes weave through the landscapes and add to the mystery.

For those of you who have purchased the CD and would like the re-mix, I will send you a code for a free download. (Just let me know). Thank you for supporting this project.

I also have the final batch (from the first print run) of milk tooth bane bone books. The poems in this CD come form it.

If you would like the book and CD pair, let me know. The book with more information can also be found on the Leaf Press website.

Wishing you happy end of the year celebrations and best wishes for a year ahead that allows us all to breathe easier in all sorts of ways.

It’s sweet to wake up to an acceptance.Event Magazine will publish my poem blank canvases on display. Thank you to the editors for loving it.
This new poem left the house for the first time in August. And I was wondering how it was doing. So good to see it find a home.

Another poem of mine went up today on Poetry Pause. This one is the opening act of the weight of dew (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2102). Mother Tongue will publish my next full collection of poetry in 2020.
You can subscribe to receive a poem a day from Poetry Pause here.

My poem suddenly leaves was on Poetry Pause on November 12. Poetry Pause is the poem-a-day project by the League of Canadian Poets. You can subscribe to receive each day a poem in your email box. I currently receive three poems a day and that is nice since it makes me read some poems each day and I can make little discoveries.
I wrote suddenly leaves a long time ago, it would be a teenager now if years mattered for poems.
So it’s nice to see it go out on more adventures. It will also likely be in my upcoming book which is slated for publication in the Spring of 2020.

The Heartwood Anthology was created with two purposes in mind – to raise awareness of our invaluable trees, and to help raise funds for the League of Canadian Poets. 250 pages of poems can make a lovely Christmas gift for someone who loves trees. Click here to read about it, and see the list of contributors.
We hope to have some copies for sale at the launch too.

Tamaracks: Canadian Poetry for the 21st Century (Edited by James Deahl) is now out. It is published by Lummox Press,
San Pedro, California.
My poem autobiography of grief 1 is inside its pages. The poem was first published by Prism international magazine.

This might be the first time my name shows up on the back cover of an anthology. Not counting the times when all the names of the contributors are enumerated on the back.

Fall is well under way, and a string of sunny days has brought lots of smiles to our faces. I have read about trees having a heartbeat (as if we could not intuit that), but scientists now are making it their business to document. I have read about plants emitting sounds, and communicating with each other and perhaps with us, if we care to listen. All things we kind of know on a low hum level, but now that the scientist are documenting it with sensitive enough technologies we can believe it too. I knew this before scientists discovered it. But how cool that they have. I hope nature is patient enough for us to discover how to be better with her.

Photo Credit: Amy Logan (used with permission of the artist)

I also heard that two of my poems have been selected to participate in Poetry Pause (an initiative of the League of Canadian Poets), which is akin to the A-Poem-a-Day that some are familiar with. My poems suddenly leaves (forthcoming in my next book), and the weight of dew (from the weight of dew, Mother Tongue Publishing, 2012) will be take part in 2019 Poetry Prose. If you subscribe and receive Poetry Pause, do let me know when you run into them sauntering through your mail box and your day.